Mission Possible: Ingredients are here for India to manufacture AI, lead AI revolution, says Nvidia's Jensen Huang
Artificial Intelligence is making computers an instrument for everyone and not just for the privileged few, believes Jensen Huang, the iconic founder and chief executive of chip maker Nvidia. He allayed the fears that AI could consume jobs or replace humans and said that the technology will make everything more efficient and productive, saving key resources and elevating human capabilities. In a free-wheeling conversation with Sruthijith KK at the ET Conversations event in Mumbai on Friday, Huang, 61, who steered the company out of turbulent early years and turned it into a $3.43 trillion behemoth that it is today, said that he still wakes up fearing that Nvidia could even now go out of business. No one in technology should get too comfortable or complacent, said the top boss helming the world’s second most valued company. His message to India’s IT services industry was unequivocal: Move from the back office to the front office and lead the AI revolution. Edited excerpts:
I want to start with a core technical question. How is your leather jacket holding up in the Mumbai heat?
(Laughs) It’s fine. Thank you! I enjoy the heat.
How prepared should India be for disruption in the IT sector, in terms of low-level coding being very rapidly getting disrupted by AI?
Well, the future of programming is going to be very different. We will do less programming of the computer and do more programming of the AI. And the idea of programming explicitly, telling the computer exactly what we want, is going to be less. And then letting
